HIRAMATSU Reiji

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HIRAMATSU Reiji 　
Japanese-style Painter

Japanese-style Painter

He has completed an innovative painting style incorporating the European Impressionists' light and color with traditional Japanese-style techniques. A longing for beautiful things comes into his works. Received Chunichi Culture Award in 2004. As of 2016, Director of Japan Artists Association, Councilor of the Japan Association for the Promotion of Arts, Visiting Professor at Juntendo University.
Reiji Hiramatsu

1941

Born in Tokyo

1979

Won Grand Prize, the 1st Chunichi Grand Prize Exhibition (Hosted by Chunichi Shimbun etc)

1980

Won Prize of Excellence, the 2nd Central Japanese Painting Award

1988

Won Prize of Excellence, the 1st MOA Mokichi Okada Award

1989

Won Grand Prize, the 10th Yamatane Museum of Art Award Exhibition

1993

Held solo exhibition (at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi main store)

1994

Held solo exhibition (at JAL gallery, Paris)

1996

Held solo exhibition (at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan)

1998

Held solo exhibition (at Korea Japan Week, Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Held solo exhibition (at Narukawa Art Museum, Lake Ashi, Hakone)

1999

Held Reiji Hiramatsu Exhibition, a trip to Impressionists and Japonism (at 11 places all over the country such as Takashimaya, Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Narukawa Art Museum, etc. / Hosted by Chunichi Shimbun, Niigata Nippo, etc.)

2000

In charge of "Bungeishunjū" cover drawings (until December 2010 issue), Won Grand Prize at the 12th MOA Mokichi Okada Award

2001

Held "Scent of inks", Japan, China and Korea representative artists exhibition (at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea)

2004

Received the 57th Chunichi Cultural Award (Chunichi Shimbun), Held Reiji Hiramatsu Exhibition focusing on cover drawings of Bungeishunjū (at Yamatane Museum of Art)

2006

Reiji Hiramatsu pavilion, Yugawara Art Museum opened

2011

Held Reiji Hiramatsu Exhibition - Cherry blossoms and Mt. Fuji "Japon" (at GALERIE YOSHII, Paris), Water lily pond

2013

Held Reiji Hiramatsu Homage to Monet (at Musée des impressionnismes in Giverny, France)

2014

Held Reiji Hiramatsu Water Lily Paintings, Homage to Monet (at Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany)

2015

Held Special Exhibition "Iris and red and white plum blossoms" Korin Art, Korin and Contemporary Art celebrating 300th anniversary of Korin Ogata's death (at MOA Museum of Art), Held Reiji Hiramatsu and Kunihiko Moriguchi Exhibition (at MOA Museum of Art)